Cat Scan

After reviewing results of a CAT scan Monday, Red Sox team physician William Morgan said Manny Ramirez will not need surgery on his fractured left index finger. Ramirez, who will get a second opinion from a specialist in Miami today, is still expected to be out 4-6 weeks and there remains a chance the injury could get worse. "It will be important for Manny to be monitored carefully," general manager Mike Port said. "There is still the possibility that the fracture could further migrate.

Donnell Beverly, named a captain with Kemba Walker for the 2010-11 season, has every reason to be excited about his upcoming senior season at UConn. First, he's got to deal surgery - twice - and several months of rehabilitation. Beverly will have surgery on both hips to correct an impingement, a condition where the bone is too big to properly fit into the socket. He began to feel pain early this season and had his condition, which he was born with, diagnosed a few months ago. "It was irritating," Beverly said Friday after reading to a group of children at John C. Clark Elementary School in Hartford.

Steve Sealy was feeling good about himself after UConn's soccer season last year. He had four game-winning goals before the season ended with a 1-0 loss to Boston College in the NCAA tournament. It seemed like he was going to be a factor this season. Then the pain began. He couldn't walk or lay down without great difficulty. At first he was diagnosed with kidney stones. But after a week, he was still in pain. Then after a CAT scan Dec. 10 at the UConn Medical Center in Farmington, Sealy was diagnosed with late-stage testicular cancer.

In its 15-year run, "ER" has a number of achievements. Among them: Becoming a huge hit for NBC for more than a decade. Starting the careers of a number of stars, George Clooney chief among them. Reviving the hospital as a setting for strong TV dramas. But "ER," which presents its two-hour series finale Thursday, can claim something few other TV shows have done: saving lives. Joe Sachs, the real-life emergency room physician in Los Angeles who became a writer and producer on "ER," said it happened a couple of times.

A look at the Yankees career of Southington's Carl Pavano, who is in the final year of a four-year, $39.95 million deal. He will make his first start since April 9, 2007, on Saturday against the Orioles: 2005 April 5: He makes his Yankees debut with 6 1/3 strong innings against the Red Sox. Leaves with a 3-1 lead but gets a no-decision. April 10: Baltimore's Melvin Mora hits a liner off Pavano's head, forcing him to leave his second start in the third inning. He makes his next start.

Mike Stanley remembers standing on deck while Jose Canseco batted in the eighth inning Friday. He remembers Canseco being hit by a pitch. He remembers walking to the plate. He also remembers being carried off the field on a stretcher. "I just can't remember anything between walking to the plate and leaving the field," Stanley said Saturday. Stanley was hit by a fastball from righthander Mike James and was taken to Anaheim Memorial Hospital, where he underwent a CAT scan and was examined by Dr. Craig Millhouse.

The Red Sox held an organizational meeting Thursday to evaluate their players and, of course, they treated the results like the Pentagon Papers. "The meeting went fine," manager Joe Morgan said. "We evaluated everybody. That's it." General manager Lou Gorman was no more forthcoming on the meeting, which included himself, president John Harrington, Morgan and the coaches. "We evaluated the players, each individual," Gorman said. "We discussed all of the players and we know what we're going to do with them."

Curiosity may be associated with cats, but man is the species set apart by a noble drive to understand the natural world via science, no matter how long it takes. The fascination with Egypt's King Tutankhamen is a case in point. Presumably, the boy king who ruled more than 3,000 years ago would be surprised to know he is still drawing world attention. A team of researchers removed the mummy briefly from its tomb earlier this month and put it through a CAT scan, providing a three-dimensional view of this artifact of the ancient world.

Regional School District 10 Superintendent Robert W. Goldman suffered a fractured vertebra in a two-car accident Wednesday afternoon in Burlington. Goldman, 57, was taken first to the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington with a cut on his forehead, but was transferred to Hartford Hospital when a CAT scan revealed the back injury, said Board of Education Chairman David Fortin. The fracture did not cause paralysis, and Goldman was listed in stable condition Wednesday at Hartford Hospital.

Mariano Rivera isn't relieved often, and he did not want to leave Saturday's game. "But once Joe Torre makes up his mind that you're coming out, you're out," Rivera said. Rivera spent two weeks on the disabled list in June with a strained groin, and had a rough week, allowing six runs in the ninth inning at Cleveland last Sunday. But in what was shaping up as a critical game against the Red Sox, Torre went to Rivera with two on and nobody out in the eighth. "I just couldn't get loose," Rivera said.

A look at the Yankees career of Southington's Carl Pavano, who is in the final year of a four-year, $39.95 million deal. He will make his first start since April 9, 2007, on Saturday against the Orioles: 2005 April 5: He makes his Yankees debut with 6 1/3 strong innings against the Red Sox. Leaves with a 3-1 lead but gets a no-decision. April 10: Baltimore's Melvin Mora hits a liner off Pavano's head, forcing him to leave his second start in the third inning. He makes his next start.

Sorry, Citibank The Dot received an e-mail from Citibank last week stating that "because multiple computers have attempted to log into your Citibank Online Account, and multiple password failures were presented" it would now be necessary for The Dot to update The Dot's personal information. The Dot knew this was a scam for several reasons: First and foremost, The Dot did not just fall off the turnip wagon. Second, The Dot does not have an account with Citibank . And third, there is the little matter of The Dot not being an actual human being.

Carl Pavano's ride with the Yankees has taken another wrong turn but, contrary to the whispers in the clubhouse, he has not given up on pitching this season. "I want to pitch," he said, after it was revealed that his latest injury is two fractured ribs sustained in a car accident Aug. 15 and concealed until Monday. "It's not in my character to try to convince people to believe something I think they should believe. That wouldn't be who I am. ... I'm the kind of person who'd give someone the benefit of the doubt.

A former Bristol Central High School student is asking the city for thousands of dollars, saying he suffered extensive and permanent injuries in a gym class game of "Capture the Cone" that got out of hand. Michael Gebrian was a senior when his eye was damaged at the school during a morning gym class on Feb. 6, according to a claim he filed recently with the city. Gebrian submitted medical bills of more than $10,000. "It's now several months later and I still don't have a full recovery of the motion of my left eye. The doctors did everything they could; but I'll never get full motion back," Gebrian wrote in a letter seeking reimbursement of his hospital and physician expenses.

Connecticut legislators capped consumers' co-payments on medical imaging tests and required insurers to disclose more to doctors about the fees they'll be paid as this year's General Assembly session ended this week. Many other insurance proposals died in the pipeline, including measures to study mandated insurance benefits and allow certain policies to exclude some mandates, and a bill concerning who should regulate life insurance and annuity contracts. The bill on imaging would limit a patient's co-pays for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

A company that transports medical imaging equipment to East Coast hospitals and clinics to do on-site scanning is expanding at a location in the town industrial park. MobileMed Support Services, whose principal owner is Gene Miller, is preparing to build a 10,000-square-foot steel building in the Argenta Industrial Park on Monson Road. Besides its specialized transportation service, MobileMed is expanding into the medical imaging clinic construction business, Miller said. "If we were staying stable, I probably wouldn't move," Miller said recently, "but I want to have some space where I can grow."

Donnell Beverly, named a captain with Kemba Walker for the 2010-11 season, has every reason to be excited about his upcoming senior season at UConn. First, he's got to deal surgery - twice - and several months of rehabilitation. Beverly will have surgery on both hips to correct an impingement, a condition where the bone is too big to properly fit into the socket. He began to feel pain early this season and had his condition, which he was born with, diagnosed a few months ago. "It was irritating," Beverly said Friday after reading to a group of children at John C. Clark Elementary School in Hartford.

Former Celtics coach Red Auerbach used to say eight players are enough -- if they're the right eight. K.C. Jones, an Auerbach protege in Boston, may not be as optimistic when his New England Blizzard play the two-time ABL champion Columbus Quest Sundayin their second exhibition game at the Providence Civic Center. Reserve guard/forward Jannon Roland, who had 15 points and four rebounds in an 87-78 loss to the Philadelphia Rage Saturday, may miss the game after being out three days with a bruised left clavicle sustained when she was elbowed by Dale Hodges in practice Monday.

Steve Sealy was feeling good about himself after UConn's soccer season last year. He had four game-winning goals before the season ended with a 1-0 loss to Boston College in the NCAA tournament. It seemed like he was going to be a factor this season. Then the pain began. He couldn't walk or lay down without great difficulty. At first he was diagnosed with kidney stones. But after a week, he was still in pain. Then after a CAT scan Dec. 10 at the UConn Medical Center in Farmington, Sealy was diagnosed with late-stage testicular cancer.

Curiosity may be associated with cats, but man is the species set apart by a noble drive to understand the natural world via science, no matter how long it takes. The fascination with Egypt's King Tutankhamen is a case in point. Presumably, the boy king who ruled more than 3,000 years ago would be surprised to know he is still drawing world attention. A team of researchers removed the mummy briefly from its tomb earlier this month and put it through a CAT scan, providing a three-dimensional view of this artifact of the ancient world.